Hello Larry, Unfortunately there is no way around doing a metadata cleanup against those 2 DCs that have been removed from your domain and are not going to come back.
You would want to figure out the machines in that particular subnet where the 2 DCs were, have connectivity to an existing and functional DC to be able to logon to the domain. Also, from your description, it seems that atleast 1 DC which is giving the error, is part of that domain from which the 2 DCs were yanked off. If there are more DCs, and are set to replicate with either of the 2, they will also give replication errors unless a metadata has been performed. On 3/6/06, Larry Wahlers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, colleagues, > > A client that we had set up as a site within our domain with its own > pair of DC's has decided to break off from us, get their own ISP, and > cut the network cable between us. In fact, they've done that last > weekend. Now, the Directory Service event log on one of our DC's is > spewing out 21 warning and error messages every 15 minutes, all related > to the fact that there are no available DC's in that site. > > Doing a Google search, I found this article > http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=216498 which describes at least 20 > steps that must be taken to remove a DC following an unsuccessful DC > demotion. Which, I suppose, is what I would have done had I had the > opportunity to demote the DC's before this client cut the line. The > article also has this warning: > > "Caution The administrator must also make sure that replication has > occurred since the demotion before manually removing the NTDS Settings > object for any server. Using the Ntdsutil utility incorrectly may result > in partial or complete loss of Active Directory functionality." > > Being a relative newbie to Active Directory management (but, just > emerging from a pair of classes), I have to ask if there is an easier > way to do this? We have about 800 users and 4 corporations on this wire, > and they might get a bit testy if their computers stopped working all of > a sudden! > > -- > Larry Wahlers > Concordia Technologies > The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > direct office line: (314) 996-1876 > List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx > List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx > List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/ > -- "Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine." ~ Elvis Presley List info : http://www.activedir.org/List.aspx List FAQ : http://www.activedir.org/ListFAQ.aspx List archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/activedir%40mail.activedir.org/
